Midway to the Light - Kari

River, river, take me in

Into your living waters flood

I will let you through my skin

And swap for my congealing blood

You reflect my purest face

Remind me where I’m coming from

Drown me in and leave no trace

If whom I started to become

I’m a scrap yard, I’m a burned ground

I’m a chest of suffering painted gold

I’m a soldier, I’m a gunshot

I’m a minefield waiting to explode

Would my dry mouth, speak your words now

Would my concrete heart open the door

I’m a chaos, I’m a struggle

I’m a leaking lifeboat in the storm

A trembling moth in spider’s web

That’s halted midway to the light

Waiting for a strike of wind

That will release it from the trap

This is how I come to you

I’m leaving all I was behind

This is when the hardest truth

Is better than the sweetest lie

I’m a scrap yard, I’m a burned ground

I’m a chest of suffering painted gold

I’m a soldier, I’m a gunshot

I’m a minefield waiting to explode

Would my dry mouth, speak your words now

Would my concrete heart open the door

I’m a chaos, I’m a struggle

I’m a leaking lifeboat in the storm